Decision Quotes and More

We have put together a collection of thought provoking decision quotes for your education, inspiration, and enjoyment. In addition to decision quotes, we have included important quotes and famous quotes for related topics (e.g., Innovation, Business, Decision Mistakes, ...). On this page, we will give you a few examples of quotes in various categories and then give you a link to additional quotes within that category.

Decision Quotes

"You can hesitate before deciding, but not once the decision is made." - Jose Bergamin (1895 - 1983), Spanish Author

"It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be." - Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992), Science Fiction Author

"The possible solutions to a given problem emerge as the leaves of a tree, each node representing a point of deliberation and decision." - Niklaus Wirth (1934 - ), Programming language designer

Personal Decision Quotes

"This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live." - Omar N. Bradley (1893 - 1981), World War II Army General

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward." - Amelia Earhart (1897 - missing 1937), American Aviation Pioneer and Author

"Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr., American Author

Career Decision Quotes

"I found every single successful person I've ever spoken to had a turning point. The turning point was when they made a clear, specific unequivocal decision that they were going to achieve success. Some people make that decision at 15 and some people make it at 50, and most people never make it at all." - Brian Tracy (1944 - ), Canadian Self-help Author

"The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!" - Earl Nightingale (1921 - 1989), American Motivational Speaker and Author

"Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage." - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) American Philosopher and Poet

Problems and Problem Solving Quotes

"To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach." - W. Clement Stone (1902 - 2002), American Businessman, Philanthropist and Self-Help Book Author

"Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one." - Ludwig Wittgenstein, (1889 - 1951), Austrian-British Philosopher

"All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem." - Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), American Clergyman and Activist